How to View the Newly Released Epstein Files By Charna Flam

The Department of Justice (DOJ) released thousands more files in connection with the investigations into sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, Dec. 19.

On Nov. 19, President Donald Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which requires the DOJ to make all documents related to the investigations publicly available and searchable. The bill was approved unanimously in the Senate, and it passed 427-1 in the House.

The files can be accessed on the DOJ website, on a page titled “Epstein Library.” The accessible files include five categories: Court Records; DOJ Disclosures, Including Disclosures Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act; Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Disclosures.

The DOJ’s latest disclosure of files is comprised of five different data sets, containing roughly 3,900 files.

The newest batch of files includes a wide range of documents and photos, including a full scanned copy of the book Massage for Dummies, a fully redacted 119-page grand jury filing and a police report in which a young woman alleges that Epstein threatened to burn down her house.

The DOJ stated in a privacy notice that “all reasonable efforts have been made to review and redact personal information pertaining to victims, other private individuals, and protect sensitive materials from disclosure.”

“That said, because of the volume of information involved, this website may nevertheless contain information that inadvertently includes non-public personally identifiable information or other sensitive content, to include matters of a sexual nature,” the statement said.

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While the agency released files on Dec. 19, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that the agency would not be able to release the Epstein files in full, despite the Act’s requirement that all files be released within 30 days.

In a post to his X account, Blanche said that the DOJ needed more time to complete redactions in the hundreds of thousands of pages of documents related to Epstein’s investigation.

“Additional responsive materials will be produced as our review continues, consistent with the law and with protections for victims,” Blanche wrote.

Blanche said in an interview with Fox News that his office expects to release “several hundred thousand more” documents related to the Epstein investigation “in the next couple weeks,” The Hill reported.

These files, which were released without context, were collected as part of the investigations into Epstein’s crimes before he died by suicide in jail in 2019.

The files include images of Epstein with co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell and others, including Trump, former president Bill Clinton, former Prince Andrew, Michael Jackson and more high-profile figures.

In a statement posted on his X account, Clinton’s chief of staff Angel Ureña responded to the document release.

“The White House hasn’t been hiding these files for months only to dump them late on a Friday to protect Bill Clinton,” the statement claims in reference to the administration of President Donald Trump, who is also seen in photos from the Epstein files. “This is about shielding themselves from what comes next, or from what they’ll try and hide forever. So they can release as many grainy, 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn’t about Bill Clinton. Never has, never will be.”

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